TopshamLad
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I'm looking to buy a new 3G phone with GPS that's ideally cheap(ish) and relatively robust. Can anybody recommend a suitable make/model/tariff?
Yep the iphone is expensive think i paid £380 for my 3G but its a great phone. I just downloaded the tomtom sat nav app, £60 but thats still a fair bit cheaper than a stand alone tomtom and its pretty much just as good. There are other satnav apps available from around £30 i think.gaz said:I would say get the iPhone if money was no object. As it's one of the best phones available at the moment, with a great least of features.
Second on my list would be the HTC Magic as Garz has already mentioned, a phone which is very good and pretty much on par with the iPhone and a growing user base is only going to make it better. and a fair bit cheaper.
MePower said:nokia 5800 on orange 15 quid. Have had 2 i phones and the 5800 gets my vote. Very quick, simple to use, and everything you need. Sat nav is the biz, and its far cheaper than i phone
peanut said:I'll second that +1
Mrs roasted and I both have Nokia 5800 and they have some excellent features. Get them free with a £15.00 contract.
The MP3 players are fantastic and the built in stereo speakers are impressive. Great camera great video and simple Nokia operation Wi-Fi GPS whats not to like.
S60 based phones eaily toggle between satnav, music, calls etc. As for the maps I have TomTom with UK and main roads of Western Europe package and it's tiny, something like 150 megs, so could easily fit detailed Euro maps on 1/2 gig of space. N73 takes up to 2 gig cards so that leaves plenty of space for music and other apps, though more up to date phones will hold a lot more - the other Nokia phone mentioned above is 8 gig I think.Lozatron said:I have an iphone and love it...however one thing you need to be really aware of, it can only do one thing at a atime - so if you go from whichever satnav application you're using to the music player, say, it stops doing it's satnav thing. Most other devices of the type do more proper multitasking.
I guess it depends what you want GPS for - don't forget most smartphones (and certainly the iphone) will only be able to download maps for the area if they're in mobile phone coverage - if you are going to visit those beautiful parts of the country which don't have perfect mobile phone reception - and you are going to *rely* on your GPS unit rather than use it to get you out of a pickle - you are probably going to need a solution which allows you to download all the maps onto the device.
I don't know if any other smartphone solutions do this (I wouldn't be surprised if some let you do this on a memory card as the maps tend to be quite big...) but my beloved iPhone certainly doesn't.
I got myself a garmin 705 which I'm really happy with - it is pricey though.
magnatom said:+1 for HTC magic. Excellent phone.